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Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards

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Phyllis Schlafly's Daughter, Dottie

In 1932, Phyllis Schlafly's family moved back to St. Louis where they rented a house and Dottie took a job selling yard goods at a department store. In 32, she becomes the chief breadwinner of the family because Bruce just can't get a job. And during this time, like Phyllis is in school and seems to be doing pretty well. She was an active and well-behaved child. If she took any particular pride in seeing her mother as the family breadwinner, we have no evidence of this. Now after World War II, things got a lot better economically but he refused to take any money from the government for fear his grandchildren would

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